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[todd]

It’s the thumbs. Or lack of them.

Just need octopus friendly technologies/infrastructure, as we start to communicate the playing field will level

[Victoria Watcher]

Elderly pig's future uncertain after complaint to SPCA

 

The 18-year-old animal is a popular attraction alongside the Lochside Trail, but the owners say she may have to be euthanized after complaint

 

 

 

 

Now that there’s been a second complaint, they fear they will continue to face complaints, resulting in more unaffordable vet fees.

 

As a result, Frans said, they may end up euthanizing the pig this week.

 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...to-spca-7246149

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 July 2023 - 09:41 AM.

[Nparker]

Have they tried hiring a spider to do some PR?

[Victoria Watcher]

Pig owners ask for extension to SPCA euthanization notice

 

The owners, who have a farm adjacent to the Lochside Trail, were told on July 5 to have the 18-year-old pig checked by a veterinarian or euthanized within five days

 

 

https://www.timescol...-notice-7251124

 

Greater Victoria residents are offering to cover the costs for a vet check and treatment for a pig that’s the subject of a B.C. SPCA order.

[Victoria Watcher]

Peninsula family reflects on 140 years of farming and what the future holds

https://www.vicnews....e-holds-3114346

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 September 2023 - 11:58 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

When Ben Obal opened his family’s farm stand in Courtenay Friday morning he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

 

“It’s just sad and I’ve lived here my whole life right,” said Obal, who owns Bates Beach Farm Market with his father, Mike.

 

According to Mike Obal, thieves took everything in the stand. From cases of produce they’d grown to coolers full of pies they’d baked, to stacks of homemade soups and even artisan soaps.

 

“They cleaned out our cooler, took probably 30, 40 dozen eggs from us,” added Mike.

 

Besides the produce, thieves also made off with electronics that kept the business running.“So frustrating, and then they take tubs of ice cream, frozen ice cream – which I’m thinking unless you’ve got a big commercial freezer – we’re talking pick-up truck loads. This is what we’re talking about,” Mike told CHEK News on Saturday.

 

He estimates more than $6,000 in produce was taken from the stand, that has donated truckloads of produce to local food banks in the past. The theft is hitting especially hard right now, said the owner, after a year of rising fuel and fertilizer prices that have reduced profits dramatically.

 

 

 

https://www.cheknews...-stand-1180209/

[todd]

“Sidney moves closer to allowing backyard hens”: https://www.timescol...rd-hens-7908421


“Avian flu expands across B.C., endangering poultry, birds of prey and other wildlife”: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7031940

[Victoria Watcher]

The reminder of winter came as the annual Greater Victoria Flower Count — the region’s way of bragging about its weather to the rest of Canada — launched Monday.

Counting doesn’t officially start until March 6, by which time the snow should be gone. For more information, go to flowercount.com.


https://www.timescol...nd-snow-8396430

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 March 2024 - 04:32 AM.

[Mike K.]

Oh, brother.

It’s no longer the flower count that matters.

[Nparker]

Did it ever matter?

[Victoria Watcher]

It's a clever, cheap marketing gimmick that often gets headlines or at least a mention in eastern media.  I like it.

[Victoria Watcher]

Sidney man sprouts microgreen business to promote healthy food

 

 

The vertical vegetable farmer has been growing greens in his backyard since 2022

 

https://www.vicnews....hy-food-7665676

 

This guy was a very good quarterback for the Rebels in the day.

[Victoria Watcher]

Avian flu found at poultry farm on Saanich Peninsula

B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham said the virus was found in a flock of about 60 chickens on the Saanich Peninsula

 

https://www.timescol...ninsula-9881168

[dasmo]

Fear the chickens now…. What I’m curious about is are they using the PCR test for this? Also, I’m grateful they just take away our freedom. The birds aren’t so lucky. The flock will likely have to be killed, which is an emotionally and financially draining experience, she said. Whether it’s a commercial or non-commercial farm, farmers often live on their farms with their families, “so it’s a really difficult issue for family farms to deal with,” said Popham.

[lanforod]

Fear the chickens now…. What I’m curious about is are they using the PCR test for this? Also, I’m grateful they just take away our freedom. The birds aren’t so lucky. The flock will likely have to be killed, which is an emotionally and financially draining experience, she said. Whether it’s a commercial or non-commercial farm, farmers often live on their farms with their families, “so it’s a really difficult issue for family farms to deal with,” said Popham.

 

Educate yourself before spouting nonsense.

 

@Mike: #garbagePost

[Mike K.]

#thisisnotX

[dasmo]

OK....

 

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Edited by dasmo, 29 November 2024 - 09:03 AM.

[dasmo]

Educate yourself before spouting nonsense.

: #garbagePost

This is a #garbagePost

It is a legitimate question..... 

[dasmo]

Here is what Kerry Mullis said about the PCR test and diagnosing AIDs with it. 

"I don't think you can misuse PCR actually. Not the results, but the interpretation of it. If you could find this virus in you at all and with PCR, well you can find almost anything in anybody. It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained and everything else right i mean because if you can amplify one single molecule up to something that you can really measure, which PCR can do, then there's just very few molecules that you don't have at least one single one of them in your body. So that could be thought of as a misuse of it just to claim that it's meaningful."

[dasmo]

#thisisnotX

Exactly. I stopped myself from giving the X like response....